MOBILITY FUNDING

Hasselt University encourages the international and intersectoral mobility of its junior researchers and wants to promote (international) contacts between research groups.

Due to financial support of the Flemish Government, the doctoral schools of Hasselt University are able to award travel grants to PhD students and postdoctoral researchers for participation in an international summer school or a short research stay abroad. Also, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers can be awarded intersectoral mobility grants for intersectoral summer schools or research projects conducted at and in collaboration with non-academic institutions (companies, hospitals, …).

There are two calls for activities in academic year 2018-2019:

Deadline of submission is 10/09/2018 and the activity (summer school or research stay) has to take place between 1/10/2018 and 31/3/2019. You will receive the result of your application by 24/09/2018.

Deadline of submission is 01/03/2019, and the activity (summer school or research stay) has to take place between 01/04/2019 and 30/09/2019. You will receive the result of your application by 22/03/2019.

All PhD students and postdoctoral researchers with a UHasselt promoter can apply, and the proposals will be evaluated by the doctoral school council.

TESTIMONY from two PhD students with respect to INTERSECTORAL MOBILITY

Internship at the Ministry of Justice

Both of us are preparing a PhD in Business Economics focusing on – among other things – the efficiency of the justice department, and we performed an internship at the Belgian Ministry of Justice. The internship resulted from a research project initiated in October 2015 by the Ministry of Justice and our research group Economics and Public Policy. The project was supervised by Dr Samantha Bielen and Prof. Dr Wim Marneffe. It was a win-win. The Ministry of Justice got to pick our young scientist brains. We got the opportunity to document and analyze governmental decision making mechanisms in the context of the judicial reform (2014), and this way thoroughly got to know the practical judicial field. The internship was thus a unique learning experience! Also, it allowed us to substantially expand our network and to gather data for future publications. It goes to say that we believe that this kind of internship can – and perhaps should – be recommended to all PhD students!